190 TiMELIIDiE. 



The young bird after the first moult still keeps a more rufous 

 appearauce than the adult bird, and has a longer tail (3-4 inches). 

 The newly moulted tail-feathers have a slight dusky subterminal 

 bar. 



Hah. South Africa, from the neighbourhood of Cape Town to the 

 Port-Elizabeth district, and along the west coast to the south of 

 Great Namaqua Land. 



a. Ad. St. South Africa. Dr. Lee [P.]. 



h. Ad. St. South Africa. South-African Museum. 



c. S ad. St. South Africa. South-Africau Museum. 



(Type of jD. capensis.) 



d. Pull. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 

 e,f. Ad. sk. South Africa (Layard). K. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 ff. Ad. sk. Table Moimtaiu, "Nov. 29, E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1861 (Andersson). 



h. cS ad. sk. Knysna, Eeb. 1, 1866 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(Andersson). 

 i. Ad. sk. Knysna, Jan. 24, 1866 E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



{A7idersso7i). 

 k, I. Ad. sk Colesberg {Oklepp). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



m. cJ ad. sk. Kugel Fountain, Little E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Namaqua Land, Aug. 6, 



1862 (Ande}-sso7i). 



4. Prinia hypoxantha. 



Drymoeca suhstriata, Gurnet/, Ibis, 1864, p. 384 (jiec Smith). 

 Drymoeca maculosa (pt.), Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 30, no. 277; sp. 



k, I, m (1871). 

 Drymoeca hypoxautha, Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 260 (1876) ; 



Ayi-es, Ibis, 1876, p. 425 ; Butler, Feilden Sj- Eeid, Zool. 1882, 



p. 243. 



Adult male. Above brown, nearly uniform everywhere, the head 

 indistinctly mottled with darker brown centres, the lower back and 

 rump slightly washed with olive ; wings brown, duller than the 

 back, with paler edgings to the feathers, the primaries narrowly 

 margined with whity brown ; tail light brown, waved across with 

 dusky under certain lights, the feathers narrowly tipped with white, 

 with a faint indication of a subterminal blackish bar ; lores and a 

 very distinct eyebrow, as well as a circlet of feathers round the eye, 

 pale yellow ; a few plumes between the eye and the base of bill 

 dusky brown, as also the upper margin of the ear-coverts ; rest of 

 the sides of the face and throat lemon -yellow, entirely spotted ; 

 rest of under surface of body yellow, unspotted on the abdomen, but 

 distinctly streaked with black down the chest and on the sides of 

 the body ; flanks washed with yellowish brown ; thighs and under 

 tail-coverts tawny buff; under wing-coverts also tawny buff, the 

 edge of the wing white ; quills brown below, the inner web edged 

 with tawny rufous ; bill black ; legs flesh-colour ; iris light brown. 

 Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-1, tail 2-7, tarsus 

 0-9. 



